If we’re only making the tournament once every 4 years or worse, yes I would want Rhoades gone. Imo, between this year and next year we have to go dancing once and I don’t think that’s a crazy ask. Would be 3 ncaas in 7 years and with our resources, conference, etc. I think this is a fair ask. Any less and we might as well have Chris Mooney.
Thread title: "It’s time to start talking about Mike Rhoades’ future at VCU." Yes, I support that.
If that were to happen, that's the time to start the thread. This sort of thing is for the off-season. Starting it in December was ridiculous.
I respectfully disagree. With the way last season ended, with where we were in December likely throwing away our at-large chances...nothing wrong examining the state of the program considering we now have to thread a needle to reach our primary goal for this season. The fact that our season comes down to a weekend in Brooklyn with no margin for error, I absolutely don't think this thread is ridiculous.
Respectfully, please don’t lump me into that category. I don’t know about everyone else, but I’ve always been consistent: when it comes to bad things that happen on the floor during the game, most of the time the problem is execution or mental lapses, and that’s almost always on the players. Conversely, the players are the ones who make the plays to win games, and they should be acknowledged for doing so. Players play and coaches coach.
Mike is a good dude, and could potentially be a lifer here. For some people that will blind to a number of shortcomings in other departments should they appear. And because people want to be rational or think of themselves as rational they'll place blame elsewhere.
Let’s keep our respectful disagreements going for a moment. We did go 19-6 over the final 25 games we played last season, which is a winning percentage of 78%. Admittedly, we were a disappointing 1-3 in the last 4. It wasn’t like those last three losses were to bad teams. We lost at SLU, who was I think, a game back of us in the standings. We lost to UR, the eventual A10 tournament champion, who beat a Big 10 team in the NCAAs; and we lost at an ACC school, Wake, in the NIT. We weren’t losing to awful teams, which is the point. Beating good teams is hard, and we came up short. We were still a bubble team being considered for an at-large, which is a credit to the players and staff after starting 3-4 last season.
I say this with complete respect. That may be my favorite sentence that you‘ve ever posted. Truer words were never spoken, as it relates to sports fans and politics.
I agree MR had a solid season. But we fell apart at the end. The way we lost to SLU and UR was very concerning. There is no excuse to show up (or rather not show up) to season defining, end of season games like that. Those games were over in the first half.
That's the thing, delving into all this, especially when you have a clearly preferred outcome (not you, Heel) before the season actually ends is kinda like listening to only half a trial. I mean, the original title was "It's Time For Mike Rhoades to Go". Whether it's borne out later or not that's an absurd thing to advocate for barely a month into a season.
